Director, Product Management

 

 

Summary:

Are you ready to lead the transformation of a market-defining tax platform at the intersection of AI and enterprise software? Join Thomson Reuters as Director of Product Management – Direct Tax, leading our tax return preparation solution trusted by top accounting firms and corporate tax departments nationwide. In this role, you will set the strategic vision, drive bold innovation, and lead a high-performing team of product managers to deliver the future of tax technology.

About the Role:

As Director of Product Management – Direct Tax, you will be responsible for:

Strategy & Innovation

• Evangelizing and supporting our vision for touchless compliance—where AI agents and tax professionals collaborate seamlessly, freeing professionals from manual data entry to focus on strategic, high-value work.

• Developing multi-year product strategy and roadmaps that balance continuous innovation with disciplined delivery of customer value.

• Championing AI-powered capabilities and driving the integration of agentic AI, intelligent automation, and modern API architectures into the product ecosystem.

• Identifying and capitalizing on emerging opportunities in AI, automation, and workflow intelligence to transform how tax professionals work.

Team Building & Development

• Building, mentoring, and growing an inclusive team of high-performing product managers who embody customer empathy, continuous learning, and iterative delivery.

• Fostering a culture of experimentation where bold ideas are tested, failures are learning opportunities, and data drives decisions.

• Coaching team members on modern product management practices, from rigorous discovery to high-quality delivery.

Execution & Operational Excellence

• Owning the end-to-end product lifecycle—from concept through design, delivery, launch, and ongoing optimization—ensuring delightful customer experiences at every stage.

• Establishing and maintaining strong customer communication practices, ensuring customers are informed and prepared for product changes that impact their workflows.

• Partnering with support teams to build robust processes that drive quick issue resolution and continuous feedback loops into product development.

• Driving a disciplined product delivery practice with clear requirements, effective prioritization, and predictable, high-quality releases.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborating with engineering, design, content, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver high-value, innovative solutions.

• Supporting go-to-market efforts with product launches, customer engagements, and compelling value articulation for new capabilities.

• Contributing to Thomson Reuters' broader product management community and the company's transformation into an integrated operating company.

About You

You're a fit for this role if your background includes:

• 8+ years of technology product management experience with primary ownership for driving product line strategy, delivery, and iteration.

• Proven track record of building and leading best-in-class product management teams, including direct reports and cross-functional partners.

• Demonstrated success in envisioning and delivering AI-powered or automation-driven product capabilities that create measurable customer and business impact.

• Experience with B2B SaaS product management, preferably with enterprise, financial, tax, or accounting solutions; experience with mature revenue-generating products required.

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to go deep on critical architecture decisions, API strategies, and integration patterns.

• Skilled at relentlessly prioritizing based on strategy, data, and customer insights while balancing stakeholder input.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: willing to roll up sleeves, take calculated risks, move fast, and thrive in ambiguity.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to inspire action and create excitement among stakeholders, customers, and team members.

Why This Role Is Unique

Thomson Reuters’ software solutions are the backbone of tax compliance practices for the nation's largest accounting firms and corporate tax departments. You'll have the rare opportunity to lead a platform at an inflection point: one where AI, automation, and modern architecture can fundamentally reimagine how tax work gets done. If you believe software should elevate professionals to do their highest-value work, this is your chance to make it happen at scale.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

 

 

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $181,400 USD - $337,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $157,500 USD - $292,500 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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